Gerhard Gudergan
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Two major trends are driving many companies in the manufacturing industry to rethink and reconfigure their business logic: the trends towards applying a service dominant business logic, and the trends towards collecting and using information about the market life cycle of products. The pursuit of market lifecycle information has lately been one that is driven mostly by tremendous developments in the area of the Internet of Things and information system integration. Companies in the manufacturing industry are reconfiguring their value chains, tending towards a higher degree of service orientation. This transformation requires an understanding of the principles behind offering additional value through industrial product service systems. The design of an adequate information architecture and the subsequent management model are the key factors for a successful implementation. This article focuses on how information gathering, analysis, and the meaningful use of information have been linked to the success of those companies within the German manufacturing industry which have made the transformation towards service-orientation. On the basis of an empirical study, five success factors with a significant impact on either innovation performance and/or operational performance are identified. These findings are enhanced to derive guidelines for an adequate information architecture. The guidelines are underpinned by best practices of prosperous companies with a strong product-service-orientation. Links between best practice application and performance are analyzed, and significant relations are identified.
Companies in the manufacturing industry are shifting towards a more service-oriented business model. One major challenge of this transformation is the information exchange between the different stages of the product-service-lifecycle.
We extend the existing body of knowledge by conducting an empirical study in the German manufacturing industry, addressing the cause-effect relationship between 1) information gathering over the product-service-lifecycle, 2) data analytics 3) interpretation and use of new information and 4) distribution of new product related information and the impact of these four aspects on performance.
The analysis reveals five different success factors with a significant impact on innovation and operation excellence. The implications from our research can help to develop new and more practical oriented Lifecycle-Product-Service-System approaches on the one hand. On the other hand it enables companies to focus on activities leading to higher service efficiency. Creating new stimuli will transform their existing business model to a more service-oriented one.
Die Digitalisierung und steigende Wettbewerbsintensität im Maschinen- und Anlagenbau zwingt Unternehmen dazu, ihre Wettbewerbsstrategien zu überdenken. Die etablierte strategische Positionierung der Kostenführerschaft scheidet in diesem Umfeld nahezu aus, da eine Differenzierung durch individuelle Leistungsangebote an den Kunden durch digitale Dienstleistungen deutlich attraktiver wird. Das bereits etablierte Konzept des Lösungsgeschäfts ist in Zeiten der digitalen Transformation der Unternehmen aktueller denn je und muss von Unternehmen umgesetzt werden.
Für Unternehmen bedeutet dies den oben genannten strategischen Wandel von einem reinen Sachgüterhersteller hin zu einem Lösungsanbieter mit individuellen Dienstleistungsangeboten.
Eine zentrale Herausforderung, um den Wandel erfolgreich zu gestalten, ist die Anpassung des Mitarbeiterverhaltens. Hier haben insbesondere kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) einen enormen Bedarf an Methoden, mit deren Hilfe die Transformation aufwandsarm und zielgerichtet begleitet wird.
Im Rahmen des Projekts wurde ein Vorgehen entwickelt, welches erstmals die Methoden des Behavioral Brandings in einen Managementansatz überführt, um eine zielgerichtete Anpassung des Mitarbeiterverhaltens bei der Transformation zum Lösungsanbieter zu gewährleisten. Dieses Buch entstand im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts ‚fit4solution‘ des FIR an der RWTH Aachen gemeinsam mit dem Lehrstuhl für Marketing der RWTH Aachen und in der Zusammenarbeit mit kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) aus dem Bereich der produzierenden Industrie. Ausgehend von dieser Zielsetzung wurde ein KMU-gerechter, interdisziplinärer Ansatz für das Management der Transformation vom Produzenten zum Lösungsanbieter entwickelt und in Form eines individuell konfigurierbaren Methodenbaukastens, eines auf KMU zugeschnittenen Rollout-Konzepts und eines Train-the-Trainer-Konzepts bereitgestellt.
Transformationsprozesse sind insbesondere für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) mit einem hohen Realisierungsrisiko verbunden. Aufgrund ihrer begrenzten Personal- und Finanzressourcen birgt Wandel immer eine potenzielle Gefahr für das laufende Geschäft und stellt Management und Belegschaft vor größte Herausforderungen.
Eine Art der radikalen Neupositionierung für Unternehmen ist die Entwicklung neuer Leistungen (Services) um ein bestehendes Produkt herum. Dabei muss die zugrundeliegende Vision eines Wandels zum Lösungsanbieter im Unternehmen internalisiert werden und deswegen Mitarbeiterroutinen angepasst werden, ohne dabei Ressourcen zu vergeuden.
Patterns of Digitization
(2019)
This article describes the results of a survey designed to assess how companies are implementing digital transformation, including the various strategies they employ and the actions they take to achieve large-scale transformations. While a few companies seem to reach front-runner status, the majority seem to lag behind. This phenomenon is a top concern of boardrooms worldwide and motivated the development of this study. To help these organizations, we highlight differentiated strategic principles and characteristics of the companies' design processes digitally mature companies undertake to transform their businesses. These insights should help lagging companies understand what is involved in implementing a digital transformation and what they need to do to enforce this transformation.
The acquisition, processing and analysis of internal and external data is one of the key competitive factors for corporate innovation and competitive advantage. Many firms invest a significant amount of resources to take advantage of advanced analytics methods. Machine learning methods are used to identify patterns in structured and unstructured data and increase predictive capabilities. The related methods are of particular interest when previously undiscovered and unknown structures are discovered in comprehensive data sets in order to more accurately predict the outcome of manufacturing or production processes based on a multitude of parameter settings. So far, this knowledge is often part of the individual or collective knowledge of experts and expert teams, but rarely explicit and therefore not replicable for future applications. On the one hand, it is demonstrated in this paper how different machine learning algorithms have been applied to better predict the output quality in the process industry. On the other hand, it is explained how the application of machine learning methods could contribute to making previously not accessible process knowledge explicit. In order to increase the prognostic accuracy of the model diferrent methods were combined, later on compared and evaluated within an industrial case. In this paper a comprehensive approach to knowledge-based process engineering is being presented.
The almost boundless possibilities of realizing saving potentials and innovations drive manufacturing companies to implement Business Analytics as part of the digitalization roadmap. The increasing research within the field of algorithm design and the wide range of user-friendly tools simplify generating first insights from data also for non-professionals. However, small and medium sized companies struggle implementing Business Analytics company-wide due to the lack of competencies. Especially the customization of a multitude of analytic methods in order to match a superordinate, business-relevant question is not done easily. This paper enables researchers as well as practitioners to close the gap between business relevant questions and algorithms. From a practical point of view, this paper helps shortening the search time for a suitable algorithm. Out of a research perspective, it aims to help positioning new algorithms within a structured framework in order to enhance the communication of algorithms’ capabilities.
Die durch eine Geschäftsmodellinnovation initiierte Transformation stellt heute für Unternehmen vielfach eine Notwendigkeit wie auch eine besondere Herausforderung dar. Zur Bewertung des Transformationsaufwands ist es dabei erforderlich, eine interne wie externe Perspektive einzunehmen. Die interne Perspektive verdeutlicht die Fähigkeit eines Unternehmens, ein neues Geschäftsmodell zu implementieren. Die externe Perspektive zeigt die objektive Andersartigkeit des zukünftigen Geschäftsmodells im Vergleich zum aktuellen Modell auf. Zur Integration beider Perspektiven werden zwei Modelle entwickelt, die Unternehmen ermöglichen, einerseits die individuelle Transformationsreife und andererseits den Transformationsaufwand zur Implementierung eines neuen Geschäftsmodells einzuschätzen. Mithilfe dieser Modelle wird eine realistische Auswahl geeigneter zukünftiger Geschäftsmodellmuster gewährleistet.
To stay competitive, the central challenge for many companies at present is to master the process of transformation in the sense of a fundamental redesign of central processes or even of the entire company. Digitization and the need to redefine and reposition oneself in a sustainable economy are just two examples of the main drivers of this transformation. In this context, the basic question of the fundamental necessity of a comprehensive transformation in the sense of a business transformation no longer even arises for most companies in the age of digital transformation. Instead, the focus is on the question of how companies can manage the complexity associated with the scope of a transformation and the necessary changes in terms of the business strategy and on how to ensure the efficiency and success of the transformation. The challenge is to simultaneously design new structures and systems on the substantive level and also to break up established patterns of behavior.
Mobilität in NRW neu denken
(2018)